TWN Briefing for Codex Alimentarius Commission

TWN assesses The Codex Alimentarius Commission’s Guidelines for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Plants and Foods Produced Using Recombinant-DNA Microorganisms […]

Canada Rejects Patents on Higher Life Forms

Canada’s Supreme Court rules out patents on higher life forms. Lim Li Ching reports on this landmark decision and its wider implications. […]

Flaws in RR soybean safety assessment

This is an assessment by Masaharu Kawata of Nagoya University, Japan which found that the safety assessment application made by Monsanto to the Japanese Health Ministry for approval of Roundup Ready soybeans were “inadequate and incomplete”. […]

Mae-Wan Ho on Genetic Modification

Genetic Dance of Life By Elizabeth John The New Straits Times, Malaysia, Feb 29, 2004 (http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Features/20040229083848/Article/indexb_html) ELIZABETH JOHN presents views from three peopl […]

Organic Agriculture Fights Back

This article documents studies which show the advantages of organic agriculture over conventional agriculture. […]

Genetically Modified Humans: For What and for Whom?

The most damning criticism of gene therapy, is that it is a simplistic, reductionist solution to complex diseases that must be understood in terms of the human being as a whole in his or her social, ecological environment. […]

GMOs’ Disappointing Record

FARMER’S BANE By Tan Cheng Li, The Star, Malaysia, Tuesday March 2, 2004 IT HAS been a decade since the first genetically modified (GM) crop, the Flavr Savr tomato, hit supermarket shelves. But it failed miserably due to heal […]

Common Ground: A Vision from the South Asia-Canada Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture

A group of farmers and activists from South Asia and Canada met to discuss issues affecting farming communities worldwide. […]

Hazards of GMOs and Need for a Liability Regime

CONTAMINATED CROPS By Tan Cheng Li, The Star, Malaysia, February 26, 2004 THAT there is an international agreement on biosafety underscores one fact – that use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) comes with risks. Ove […]

GM Food Aid Row Continues

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, the most contentious issue that was not on the official agenda, but which reverberated through the corridors, was on GM food aid. […]